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Apple seems to have gotten a bit more liberal with what they auto-load onto its iOS devices—and no, I'm not talking about that U2 album. When you upgraded to iOS 8, you probably noticed that a few more apps came along for the ride. Podcasts and iBooks now come preinstalled, which might annoy some people, but one new un-deletable addition may be truly useful to everyone: the Tips app. Tips comes preloaded with nine tips that cover a variety of top...

As you probably heard, iOS 8 is now available for you to download and install on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. But as exciting as it is to install a new OS on launch day, there are some good reasons to wait for a few days—or at least a few hours. Avoid Server issues The first-day crush of downloads can slow Apple's download servers to a crawl—and frustrate you to no end. What's the hurry? Wait a day or two—or at least a few hours—for the mad ...

What does a plane full of iPhones look like? MacRumors Forums member goforblacksky published photos of pallets full of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus shipments in the cargo hold of a 747 that flew from China to Anchorage, Alaska. Goforblacksky says he shipped 195,000 iPhones in the overseas trip, and that this shipment is ultimately bound for Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Cool! Go check it out...

It may only be April, but the Internet is buzzing with rumors and speculation about what the next iPhone may hold—complete with the obligatory component leaks and mockups (of course!). To help you make sense of it all, I thought I'd take a few minutes and go through what we know about the next iPhone. It will be an iPhone. It will be designed by Apple in California. It will run some version of iOS. It will have an Apple logo on the back. It will...

We've all been there, knee deep in our research when we accidentally close a window or tab, or even close out an application entirely using keyboard shortcuts when we clearly meant to jump between windows. All of these things have solutions to undo the catastrophe you just unleashed on your workflow. Here's how you reopen accidentally closed browser tabs with a keyboard shortcut for both Safari and Google Chrome. In Safari It's quite simple. Sho...

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It's the night before the launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and lines have already formed at Apple Stores around the world. At Chicago's Lincoln Park Apple Store, the line spans around the corner of the building as of Thursday evening, and has continued to grow slowly over the course of the night. While most customers I saw were sitting out on lawn chairs, I spotted a couple of tents and a heck of a lot of MacBooks. Forest Chambers, first in li...

Upgrading your phone? You may as well upgrade your password manager while you're at it. 1Password, the popular password management software for OS X, iOS, and Windows, is currently free for iOS. The app normally costs $18, and, according to the App Store page, it will receive a free iOS 8-focused update later this year. 1Password for iOS doesn't just store passwords: The app can also generate new passwords, sign into accounts with 1Browser, and ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Give every iTunes user a free copy of U2's newest album Songs of Innocence, and have it magically appear in their iTunes libraries without any explanation. Wait. Never mind. That's a terrible idea. Especially that last part. Having perhaps realized the error in its ways (or that people were confused and complaining), Apple has published a new article to its support site that explains how you can remove Song...

By now, you’ve likely heard about how a hacker leaked revealing photos of celebrities onto the Internet, supposedly though Apple's iCloud service. Apple now says that the leak did not result from a security vulnerability in iCloud, as was widely reported, but that the accounts "were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions." Many companies now offer two-factor authentication, which adds an extra layer ...

When importing videos to iPhoto, the videos get mashed together with your photos. This can be a nuisance, especially if you use your Mac often as a source for all your photos and videos. Finding a lone video in a sea of photographs can be quite tricky; however, there is a quick way to filter out the videos from all of your snapshots. The great part about it is you only have to set a Smart Album up once. Smart albums are albums iPhoto creates for ...